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Simple sequence repeats drive genome plasticity and promote adaptive evolution in penaeid shrimp.
Communications biology - 11 Feb 2021
Yuan Jianbo, Zhang Xiaojun, Wang Min, Sun Yamin, Liu Chengzhang, Li Shihao, Yu Yang, Gao Yi, Liu Fei, Zhang Xiaoxi, Kong Jie, Fan Guangyi, Zhang Chengsong, Feng Lu, Xiang Jianhai, Li Fuhua
Abstract excerpt
Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) are rare (approximately 1%) in most genomes and are generally considered to have no function. However, penaeid shrimp genomes have a high proportion of SSRs (>23%), raising the question of whether these SSRs play important functional and evolutionary roles in these SSR-rich species. Here, we show that SSRs drive genome plasticity and adaptive evolution in two penaeid shrimp species,...
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